1 Mbps = Rs 920 Railtel broadband

sure the prices and speed look enticing, but is it available in all parts of bangalore as many of bangaloreans are expecting?


Does proximity to a railroad track speed things up ?

Wonder why they chose Whitefield to do the pilot.
 
^ contradicting yourself?
first you said railtel is fast, then you said it is good and lastly you said its not fast. :P
To put it exact it was giving 256 kbps (fast for some ..slow for else) only
that is what i am currently getting with my bsnl dataone UL750
may be now they go for a upgrade and go on for 1Mbps ( i doubt it will be for UL)..
 
Wonder why they chose Whitefield to do the pilot.

cause thats where the IT companies are and most of the employees working in those IT companies live around Whitefield. so setting up the base there would bring them corporate customers.

i called them up last week and asked them and they asked me where i live and i mentioned i live near the Majestic Area and they told it will take approximately 3 months to set up connections in this area.
 
I just applied online.....lets see I am in Delhi and they let me select the state.

This is reply i got
Dear Mr. xxxxxxx

Warm Greetings from RailWire!


This is with regards to your recent online enquiry with RailWire (appended below).

We are glad to receive your enquiry.

Delhi will come under our pan-India rollout plans. From the customer support team we at present don’t have good visibility into the exact dates/timelines. However you could expect us to reach Delhi by end of this year or early next year.




With warm regards,


Team - RailWire Operations
 
Interestingly I saw a Railtel office in Connaught place in New Delhi near the ABN Amro bankFrom the email i got they say Delhi will come under our pan-India rollout plans, but what tecnology are they gonna use???? DSL????Will they telephone lines????I hope they dont follow the Sify Model???
 
Monday, 14 July 2008Indian Railways to provide internet service in Kerala


Our network is such that every railway station in the country can be turned into a source for education centres.

Thiruvananthapuram: Indian Railways is set to join the bandwagon of internet providers in Kerala with a special provision for those browsing education sites.

The railways is providing broadband internet connection in the state through the Railtel Corporation of India Ltd. The biggest incentive for those taking the net service of Indian Railways is that they can download education material free.

A. Seshagiri Rao, executive director (southern region) of Railtel, told IANS Railtel would provide the service through cable operators who have connectivity across the state.

"The internet service would become operational in the next two to three months," said Rao, who was in the city.

Railtel, which manages the communication sector of Indian Railways, has laid more than 38,000 km of optical fibre cable across the country, which would be the backbone for providing broadband connectivity in the state.

"Our network is such that every railway station in the country can be turned into a source for education centres. But we have decided to provide broadband connectivity to the people through cable operators. The biggest advantage for those using our connectivity is that they would get unlimited download in matters regarding education," said Rao.

Towards this, Railtel has finalized a tie-up with the seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore where they have ready more than 6,000 hours of lectures by the faculty.

"The biggest advantage of Indian Railways internet is that downloading of education material will be at a speed ranging from 2 mpbs to 30 mpbs," added Rao.

Source: Indo-Asian News Service
 
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